Chapter 1558 sleepless nights
"Huh--it's so comfortable. I didn't expect the food here to be so delicious."
Wei Ji came to the room he had just booked and lay directly on the bed. His expression was indescribable.
Du Shaoyun and Liu Mo were following in, and their faces were also red, with round belly stops, and they could hardly sit down.
"Wei Da, don't fall asleep. We will have to go to the Grand Theater to watch the garden and dreams." Liu Mo reminded kindly.
Du Shaoyun said, "Just sleep. Just when I paid the bill, the shopkeeper told me that someone would remind us later, just take the carriage to go there."
"It's really convenient to live here." Liu Mo said excitedly.
Wei Ji suddenly sat up.
Liu Mo and Du Shaoyun looked at Wei Ji in surprise.
"Wei Da, what's the matter?"
Wei Ji grabbed the bedding with a handful and said curiously: "What is this bedding made of? It's not numb or silk cotton."
Du Shaoyun said: "This is the cotton transported from Jiangnan. The beauty of freedom makes it into a quilt."
"Cotton? I remembered it."
Liu Mo said that, and walked over and touched the quilt, "It's better to touch it than silk cotton."
Wei Ji nodded and said, "The Guanzhong Hotel looks so grand outside, so you should prepare silk cotton for us."
Du Shaoyun smiled embarrassedly and said, "That's right, we live now, the standard room, the luxury room uses silk cotton."
Wei Ji wondered: "Why don't you book a luxury room?"
Du Shaoyun said: "We have asked He Ruohan, Yuwen Xiumi and the others to book it. We are quite lucky. If we are a little later, we can only stay in an ordinary room."
Wei Ji snorted: "He Ruohan and the others are showing off recently."
Du Shaoyun sighed and said, "We really can't compare with them now. That luxurious room is not cheap. If we want to spend more time here, we have to save some money. The price of this standard room is quite suitable for us."
Wei Ji said angrily: "When will his He Ruo family be able to ride onto my Wei family?"
Liu Mo said: "Wei Da, I think Brother Du's words are reasonable. Their family is not as good as your Wei family. But they have been out for business long ago. They have money in their hands, but we still have to take it from the family. If we have to take too much, our parents will scold them. Now we really can't compete with them!"
Du Shaoyun nodded in deep emotion, "We should also go out to do business and make some money. Now there are too many places to use money, so it's not a big deal to always get it from home."
Wei Ji said: "You are really promising and want to be businessmen? In the future, we will become officials and will have monthly salary. Are you still afraid of not having money?"
Liu Mo said: "You can't say that. We just entered the officialdom and at most we can get a fifth-rank official. How much money can we have? Look at Brother Shanxing. The money we earn in a day is the salary of many officials in a year."
Du Shaoyun said: "In the past, merchants were humble, but now everyone is competing to do business. Look at the Shandong Group, isn't it just the four major families of Cui, Lu, Zheng and Wang? They say that merchants are humble and have no business, but they all go to do business by themselves. Now that the trade between the north and the south is smooth, they don't know how much money they can make during this round trip. They are really smart enough."
Speaking of this, he glanced at Wei Ji and said, "Don't there anyone in Jingzhao Wei's business? It's just that your family didn't do it."
Liu Mo said: "Or we can do a business, at worst we won't come forward."
"This is feasible." Du Shaoyun said: "But we have never done a business, and we don't know what business to do?"
Liu Mo smiled and said, "The Grand Theater is so popular nowadays, we can also try it. After all, the three of us have been in Pingkangli since we were young, and we are still familiar with this."
Du Shaoyun and Wei Ji suddenly heard a flash of eyes.
This situation is already very common, because the aristocrats still mainly farm and earn money every year. At the beginning of the year, the increase is almost negligible. As they play more and more goods, their expenses gradually increase a lot, which means that their property is beginning to shrink, especially the young men, who take the family's money. For them, their demand increases on the one hand, but their financial resources do not increase, so the income and expenditure are somewhat unbalanced.
The advantages of the new aristocrats who followed Han Yi on the business road from the beginning were gradually revealed. They are now working hard and enjoying the changes they have taken place. After all, the aristocrats have unique advantages, and they have a strong foundation and reputation. They want to do business and have a high success rate.
After a morning of desertedness, starting from noon, the new market began to become more and more popular. Too much popularity, all the hotels in this new market were already overcrowded.
More than a hundred four-wheeled carriages ran all afternoon, because if you were to play, it was still a playground and a grand theater. There were not many items to play in the new market, usually chess clubs, tea clubs, or painting and writing. Because the new market does not require too many projects, you can just do some indoor projects. Anyway, the Grand Theater and the amusement park are right next to you, so everyone goes there to play, and then in the evening, they take the carriage to the new market and don’t go back to the city.
Because everyone has realized that the biggest charm of this new market is not during the day. This day just makes everyone familiar with the new market. Don’t get lost. The night of the new market is the most attractive.
Although the curfew in the city has been opened, the architectural design is based on the curfew system, and the first thing is that there is a lack of lighting systems. Therefore, even if it is open for one night every five days, if you want to go out for fun, you will still encounter a lot of trouble. The layout is like this. If it needs to be changed, it is a big project, and the court has not planned to change it. The design of the new market has already considered the operation at night, including lighting design. For example, in the middle of the square in later generations, there is a very large fire lighting equipment.
When it was night, the entire new market was brightly lit.
For example, oil lamps have been gradually eliminated. Because after years of development, the candle industry has been greatly promoted, mainly the Yuan family. Han Yi told the Yuan family to breed ash waxworms to produce candles. Now the Yuan family’s ash waxworm breeding scale is already very large. Not only that, the Yuan family also looks for raw materials to make candles, such as animal oil, beeswax, etc.
Nowadays, all the candles in the entire new market are provided by Yuanjia, which shows how large it is, but compared to Yuanjia’s investment, this is nothing.
The outside of the house is not only burned with wood, but also oil, but it is not called oil now, but it is called "fat". It just so happened that Gaonu County in Guanzhong region produced oil, and it was overflowing oil and did not need to be exploited. It is said that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, local people used this kind of thing to burn fire, which lasted for hundreds of years, and no one paid attention to it, let alone used it as a commodity. Until this commercial civilization rose in Guanzhong region, a gentry named Li in Gaonu County monopolized the land last year. This year, oil was made into a commodity and sold specifically to Chang'an and Luoyang. He made a fortune in one year.
It was not Han Yi's idea to make oil commercial. This deal was negotiated by Sang Mu. He also found out that the new market had already used oil when he lived here not long ago. He was shocked. Han Yi had never thought about oil because oil was too advanced and there was not enough technology to mine and refine. With current technology, coal can be developed, so he had to burn high incense. He didn't know where oil will spill out, so it would be useless.
This is the advantage of commercial civilization, because wealth will induce people to constantly innovate and find better things instead of being content with the status quo. This is the most fundamental difference from the small peasant economy.
In the brightly lit new market, there are shadows everywhere, and there are many more women than during the day. These playboys are all old drivers. After booking a room at noon, they will send someone to take over their concubines in the afternoon. If there is no beauty accompanying this scene, it will be really shameful for Han Yi’s thoughts!
Moreover, it was popular in the Tang Dynasty to visit prostitutes and exchange. This kind of scene where everyone gathered with their concubines was not something that happened today.
But in this way, the atmosphere of freedom becomes even stronger.
The cold winter seems to not exist. Generally, in such a cold day, who would like to go out? But if you are in a new market, you will not feel the atmosphere of winter at all.
Han Yi and Xiao Wuyi also came outside. This freedom was so tempting. Xiao Wuyi had just experienced the pleasure of freedom. She enjoyed it very much and was very happy. She was even more indescribable to satisfy the day that Han Yi arranged for her.
"The lower official has met Shangshu Han and Mrs. Han."
Two young men in uniforms saluted immediately when they saw Han Yi.
Before Han Yi could speak, Xiao Wuyi said, "It turned out to be Fei Yang and Xiao Xiang!"
These two people are Zheng Xiang and Yang Sen.
The two of them looked at Xiao Wuyi and couldn't help but smile awkwardly. We are all royal policemen. Is it appropriate for you to still call me that? But the other party is Xiao Wuyi, so I'll just forget it.
Han Yi held back his smile and said, "How is it like coming here?"
"Sure - very good." Yang Sen smiled, but when he thought of Xiao Wuyi's presence, he couldn't help but quickly stop his smile. He and Xiao Xiao were childhood friends, both of them were nobles in Jiangzuo, and he was also afraid of Xiao Wuyi's.
The royal police patrol other places. They are all office places provided by the government, and they are all very broken for a long time. After all, many county governments do not like the royal police, and the environment is definitely that way. However, when we come here, the office places are provided by the new market. Although the temple is small, it is complete and it also provides delicious midnight snacks. You can meet two acquaintances after taking two steps and chatting for a few words. This cannot be called patrol. This is here for vacation.
Seeing that they were excited, Han Yi said, "You must always remember your identity. You are not here to play, there are many people here. Be careful, don't be lazy. If something goes wrong, they will pursue it."
"Yes, the official knows."
"Go and do your business."
"Here!"
The two bowed again and left.
Xiao Wuyi pursed her lips and smiled, "Husband, I didn't expect that they would be so afraid of you."
Han Yi sighed and said, "What are you afraid of? I'm just a fake tiger's power."
Xiao Wuyi glared at him with anger and said, "By the way, the New Year is coming soon. Will Xiao Xiao come back for the New Year?"
Han Yi thought for a while and said, "If nothing happened, they should have a few days of vacation, but they were taken turns. I don't know how the Mins Security Bureau arranged Xiao Xiao's vacation. When I go back to Mins Security Bureau, I will ask."
Xiao Wuyi nodded slightly and sighed: "This royal policeman sounds majestic, but it's really not an easy job."
Han Yi smiled and said, "If it's easy, then what training camp should I do."
It was a sleepless night because everyone was very excited. After the second update, the wind became stronger and stronger. Although everyone returned to the house, they still had no sleepiness. They rushed into this room and that room, drinking and spanking, and they were so happy.
This new market became a hit, and it can be expected that it will only get better and better in the future, because it is the only one, this is an entertainment-oriented market that can be enjoyed every night. Moreover, many famous prostitutes do not return to the city and come here directly. Their residence is free. The new market has signed a contract with Pingkangli, and some small courtyards are reserved for them, because when they come here, they will only attract more people, so why not do it?
Chapter completed!